Word: boscaini
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...band tramped down the Salarian Way, along which Romans had once marched to capture the Sabine women and found ancient Rome, the grim thump of drums woke Adolfo Boscaini. Farmer Boscaini kept 200 milk cows, 600 sheep on 220 hectares (about 490 acres). His barns were freshly painted. So was his tractor, ready for autumn ploughing. His cowsheds smelt only of sour-sweet silage...
Fruits of Labor. Boscaini hurried into a dairyman's light blue linen pants, white coat and shirt, and rushed down. He was too late. A crowd of 200 men was already dividing up his land. On the road stood another 300 expropriators. The band played merrily as a priest blessed the subdivisions, which men with stakes were marking...
...Boscaini looked at the land which had been his-at the intricate system of reclamation ditches, running down to the Tiber River. He had dug them with his own hands through what had then been oozy swampland. In his mind, he saw the farm reverting to swamp while the new owners squabbled. He decided to stay on his farm on any terms. Said he to the new owners: "You have no ploughs, no cattle. I will work this land for you. You will give me a share in the crops." So, after a lifetime of hard work, Boscaini became...
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